Ford, Mike wrote:
> On 04 June 2009 19:09, PJ advised:
>
>
>> Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote:
>>
>>>> From my experience I tend to use a difference ID for the
>>>>
>> body tag, for
>>
>>> instance <body id='homepage'> and then format it in my CSS using ID
>>> reference: #homepage .classname {
>>> color: blue;
>>> }
>>>
>>> This way you can use a default format for all the pages and create
>>>
> minor
>
>>> (or major) changes in the theme in no time :)
>>>
>>> I would also suggest to attach the CSS filename reference at the
>>>
> <head>
>
>>> tag the update time of the file, so that the browser will
>>>
> automatically
>
>>> update the cache of the CSS whenever you decide to edit it.
>>>
>>> Just my 2 cents ;)
>>>
>>>
>> Oh, I think it's worth a lot more than that.
>> I just installed IE 8 just to have it for verification. It's no better
>> than IE 6. I never use them personally.
>> But how do you produce interesting web pages to look well on both
>> without making stupid compromises. What looks well on Firefox, looks
>>
> like
>
>> MSshit on IE.
>>
>
> This may be a silly question, but reading this just makes me wonder --
> you do have an appropriate <!DOCTYPE as the very first line of your HTML
> to prevent IE going into Quirks Mode?
>
I do, thanks. PJ
> I don't usually have *that* much trouble getting IE to render very
> similarly to Firefox (and IE8 is reportedly much better), but if IE is
> in Quirks Mode it makes a huge difference and presents all sorts of
> rendering problems. (The Firefox Web Developer plugin will tell you if a
> page is rendering in Quirks Mode or Standards Compliance Mode.)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mike
>
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